FGSC #2284

Mutant Type

Genus: N

reporting_genes: spco-4 wc-1 nt

species: Neurospora crassa

allele: R2367 P829 65001

stock: 7113

glasgow:

mutagen:

Depositor: DDP

Link Group: VIIL VIIR VIIR

MT: A

Species No: 10

gene_back:

oppmt: 2285

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ksudc_link: https://digital.lib.k-state.edu/item/neurospora-crassa/fgsc-2284

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Genes

Locus	Cultural Requirements	Link Group	Type
wc-1	VIIR. Right of met-9 (1 to 4%). Left of un-10 (7%) and for (6%) (724, 812, 816). Carotenoids absent from mycelia; conidia become pigmented with some delay. Named because nonconidiating rim at top of agar slant remains white. A double mutant with flor other nonconidiating mutant would be classed as albino. Regulatory mutants for photoinduced carotenogenesis via blue light receptor might be expected to have a similar phenotype (444, 445). A blue light treatment (given in vivo), which increases the activity of soluble and microsomal enzymes required for phytoene biosynthesis in the wild type, does not do so in the mutant wc-1 (445). Fails to show phototropism of perithecial beaks when used as the female (protoperithecial) parent, but not when used as the male (fertilizing) parent (R. W. Harding, personal communication). Useful genetic marker (725, 800). Scoring clearest at high temperatures (34 C).	VIIR	B
nt	VIIR. Between arg-10 (2 to 12%) and sk (7 to 18%) (789). (874) Uses nicotinic acid. May respond also to tryptophan, phenylalanine, tyrosine, quinic acid, and precursors of nicotinic acid or tryptophan, or both, depending on genetic background (448, 760). Best supplemented with nicotinamide and scored as a nic mutant. Probably deficient in tryptophan pyrrolase (tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase) (Fig. 18), but direct evidence is lacking because tryptophan oxygenase cannot be assayed in Neurospora (368). Kynurenine formamidase levels are normal (368). Pyridine nucleotide levels (111).	VIIR	B
spco-4	VIIL. Linked to do (<1%) and nic-3 (1%, probably to the left) (816). Fine hyphae (382). Initially aconidial. Capable of conidiating on the surface of complete medium (D.D. Perkins, unpublished data). Hyphae extend faster within agar medium than on the surface, resulting in a dense hemispherical colony, most of which is embedded (1085).	VIIL	B